Garden Variety Soda Fountain

On August 18, 4-6pm at the Early Street Garden in Rosedale KCK, come experience S.E. Nash’s latest fermentation sculpture, Garden Variety Soda Fountain, for FREE. GVSF is a sculptural vending cart designed for housing and serving naturally fermented sodas. The sodas are made with ingredients grown in the community garden and orchards in the Rosedale Community Gardens. While tasting Sour Cherry Kombucha, Blackberry Jun, Pickle Kefir, Basil Kefir, and Pineapple Jalapeno Kombucha, you can browse the gardens and identify plants used in the sodas.

GVSF was born out of an interest in creating transformational flavors from local garden ingredients. Beverages are the focus of GVSF because of their ability to transform common flavors into surprising elixirs. GVSF was envisioned as a contemporary soda fountain, a free gathering place of inclusion where we can talk politics, art, fermentation, and gardening. Sodas were developed by pharmacies as a way to sweeten bitter medicines such as cocaine, pepsin, lithium, and caffeine. GVSF is serving medicine in the form of naturally fermented probiotic drinks, sunshine, garden greenery, and conversation.

GVSF was produced with a Rocket Grant from the Charlotte Street Foundation and the Spencer Museum of Art with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.